Daily Tech Headlines – January 27, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / January 27th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft has good earnings, Intel and Alphabet have mixed results and Seagate brings a 12 TB drive.

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Today in Tech History – January 27, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 27th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1948 – IBM dedicated its “SSEC” in New York City. The Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator handled both data and instructions using electronic circuits made with 13,500 vacuum tubes and 21,000 relays.

1967 – The first US astronauts died in the line of duty. Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed on the launch pad when a flash fire engulfed their command module during testing for the first Apollo-Saturn mission.

2006 – Western Union discontinued its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. The company still handles money transfers.

2010 – Apple announced the iPad, a tablet computer running the same operating system as the iPhone.

2016 – Google’s DeepMind researchers published a paper in Nature announcing that their machine intelligence AlphaGo had defeated Fan Hui, a three-time European Go champion. The computer won five games of Go without a defeat.

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DTNS 2954 – Apple Searching for its Core

Daily Tech News Show / January 26th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comVerizon wants to get in the cable ISP game, some actual research on fake news, and what Greg Duffy’s hiring means for Apple.

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 26, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / January 26th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Hugo Barra leaves Xiaomi for Facebook, HTC’s designer joins Google’s DayDream, and Apple may join the AI industry group.

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Today in Tech History – January 26, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 26th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1926 – John Logie Baird gave his first public demonstration of a broadcast television picture that delivered a recognizable human face. Previously he could only broadcast silhouettes.

1932 – The US Patent Office received a patent application for the cyclotron by Ernest Orlando Lawrence as a “Method and Apparatus for the Acceleration of Ions.”

1949 – The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory saw first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope. Hubble photographed Hubble’s Variable Nebula (NGC 2261).

1983 – Lotus began selling its spreadsheet application for Microsoft DOS, called 1-2-3. It would quickly become the most popular spreadsheet software but not make the transition to Windows well and fall behind Excel permanently.

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DTNS 2953 – Curing Curation

Daily Tech News Show / January 25th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.com Facebook reconsiders personalized curation of trending topics, T-Mobile adds a free year of Hulu for AT&T customers who jump ship and Amazon makes waves as it goes into the ocean shipping business.

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Daily Tech Headlines – January 25, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / January 25th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Cisco buys AppDynamics, D-Wave releases a new quantumish computer, and Wine 2.0 is released.

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DFP #10 – Coma

Shows / January 25th, 2017

It’s with great sadness that we mourn the passing of Miguel Ferrer, who portrayed Special Agent Albert Rosenfield on Twin Peaks. It’s fitting that we welcome special guest, Gabriel Hardman who is the biggest fan of Albert we know. Recorded before Ferrer’s passing, we dive into the second episode of season 2, with an extra special moment involving stools.

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Today in Tech History – January 25, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / January 25th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell formed the Oriental Telephone Company in agreement with the Anglo-Indian Telephone Company Ltd. The company was licensed to sell telephones in Greece, Turkey, South Africa, India, Japan, China and several other Asian countries.

1915 – AT&T inaugurated transcontinental telephone service with a call made between New York City and San Francisco, CA The line had been completed the previous summer too early for the Panama Pacific Exposition, where it was introduced.

1921 – A play called Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R.) by Karel Capek debuted at the National Theater in Prague. It was the first appearance of the word robot. Spoiler alert, the robots end up killing all the humans but one.

1979 – Robert Williams was killed on the job in a Flat Rock, Michigan, casting plant, becoming the first recorded human death by robot.

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